Stanford University student Joshua Browder launched the robot lawyer in London less than two years ago, and has since launched in New York. Within that time frame, the service tackled 250,000 cases, winning 160,000 for a total success rate of 61%. Browder offered this data in a Medium post, where his bio calls Do Not Pay the “UK’s first robot lawyer” and notes that the BBC has termed it the “Robin Hood of the internet.” Browder, currently just a second-year student at Stanford, invented the app after he got about 30 parking tickets himself. From his post: Browder’s automated service is perfectly suited to appealing parking tickets, as the government process is well-defined but murky, and can be tough to figure out. Do No Pay has plans to expand to my hometown Seattle next, and I couldn’t be happier about it. Not everything can be automated, but if anything should be, it’s government paperwork.
